Magic Lantern Spectacle

The ‘Million Pictures’ European research project and the University of Exeter are delighted to offer a rare chance to experience a spectacular magic lantern event. This comes to Exeter as part of a two-day international research workshop on lantern slides being held at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum on 11 and 12 January 2018.

Magic and the Muse uses both original and specially-created lantern slides and a genuine Victorian triple lantern. Lanternists Jeremy and Carolyn Brooker, accompanied by live music from multi-instrumentalists Richard Navarro, Nicholas Thurston and Miriam Gould, will present a fantastic combination of music, performance and projection, including a rare demonstration of projection onto a ‘living screen’ using hand-painted slides once owned by the parents of the film actor Peter Sellers.

The venue is Exeter’s Barnfield Theatre (itself originally built as a lecture hall to accommodate lantern projection), at 8 p.m. on Friday, 12 January.

Tickets are £14.00 or £12.00 for concessions (includes full members of the Devon History Society). Groups of 10 receive an extra ticket free.